The cables were already in place, so the location it had to be. The floor space was taken, the table space in that area is used for machining equipment. And I’d have to be shopping and spending money and effort and it was faster to drill and tap the holes.

First occurrence on eth0:2010 Winterlan, the LackRack is the ultimate, low-cost, high shininess solution for your modular datacenter-in-the-living-room. Featuring the LACK (side table) from Ikea, the LackRack is an easy-to-implement, exact-fit datacenter building block. It’s a little known fact that we have seen Google engineers tinker with Lack tables since way back in 2009.